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MkyFoee1'Proù. W1dnes Dé%iéF2 9f d& E- Doesn't that warrn your heart? Now, lot uS get on to important,,things. Like, have éo ver noticed that Pamaela Walcoacor o CB'SPie' i me- newscastt, was born with hier eyes upoide down?' Hey, really, I, mean it. Watch carefully next Une. You look hier straight in the eye and you begin to lose eulibriui.It took me a long Urne to figure it ont. And it'smore than. that no-nionsense,, journalistic stare. lier eyes are inverted. It gets the saine e -etas starinî ybalt-eyeball with' someone standing on her head.'Or iwhen ýyou are standing on your head r i-oeinig up behinid'your sponie while' she/he ïis seated in an easy,,chair. Lean. down and ,,plant a forehead ki0.W <leyon're- at îit, give a Iongserious eyeball-to-eyeal sar.Upside down eyýes h ave.this strangelookYn e the idea. Well, Pamela WaIlin has1 eyes like that. If you .dont believe mne, try watchingPieTm tnh hile tnig on yourhedI guarantee that Pameéla will l ook .'right side up, while Peter' Mansbridge*willlook... ah, forgetIt.Just plantaàkiss Should 'someone interrupt.. .ýr_ yogu while,,you* try this' exermetquietly explain that Bill sent you. Thejiý'l unertad.Itskid=f 11Bl thing to do. Now, lot, me change topics for a minute. Woll, fori the reat ofthis coluin, or whatever. ThWis aycon as a shock te some realders but somo peoplo ýhave atalyacue e gooi old Honest Bil of making thinge up. That mayhotefr .when-.fîn late coming home,,froin work But in *a clumn,.never. That, should se . the- scene ýnicelyý for the next few paraigraphs. Which, - incidentally, happen to bho tre. Meaning this actually happened., This pýerson cornes, up. e,!3e adàtually, boy this, floors me,, actualy "Sowhen',h say, "'re oing tequote me?# "What would .yon 1'ike to ho quotedaessaying?" Hot ponders fore. mnte We have lots of sayings. Quota one."# By now fncros S give me a quota." "Okay. <HMe's I ifl flight now. "Umm, «'Suc esa means ..!' how doos that go?" "es our quota." "Yaokay, 'Success meansyon didn'talin hi Soug. metbing like that." Soupéds good to me.,Unfortunately lho didn't provide a footnote or büibhography. Bu1t. you * get the idea. Thanks, Doc. 0 f reent days I have just completed reading John Sawatsky's 'The Politica of Ambition' (the life story of Brian Muïn". aeoà book -is the defuiitive sto!yofpoliticambitioni. Uanama's 'media' magazine, 'Content,'says- Sawatsky used alrnost one thousand interviews m researchung the book. If you're looking for a aleeper for your Christmnas list (either to give 'or receivoe) this should ho it. Sawatsk' narrative readsE lke aJames Michener noveL. Only this isn't fiction: Ws -ýthe, detailed, somnetimes down 'and diry, S-tory of how a young maný froin a srall tewn sets ont te becorne Prim é Mnister of Canada.ý I would'doddlle. Although this book is as readablo as anyfictioný you'Ill pick up today already it's fading' fromibookstere shelve& Try it. YOM'I love iL Heck Corne the federal eélection, you might get Brian, te autograph your copy. .. ý 11 mq BAIRN RAISNG ON'IlIJHNSMTHFARM 191. This barn was built 'on thé site. of 'the building"ue ro 93 e172s a nursesreinc at the, Whitby Psychiatric Hosita.Jh Smith owned a large part of'the hospital land from 1888 until'his death in 1912, when it was purcha'sed by the Ontario goverment.,The farm, called 'Bayside,' was first settled-in 1838 by.William CGordon. 1YEARSAGO '&com the Wednesday, December 1, 1982 edition of the WHMTY EREE PRESS *Lynda Buffett is the president of theý Whitby Chamber of Commerce for 1983. *Amie Ottenbrite bas been named as Student of the Year by the Chamber of Commerce.. *Durham Regfion council has frozen couincillors'wages for the seçond year in arow. Mi TueUnitedWayie $200,000 shortof its-goal of $1.5 million. 35 YEARS AGO from the Thursday, December 5, 1957 edition of the WIUTBY WEEIKLY NEWS " The Public Utiies Commission wants Town counicil .te, approve an expansion OfWV;Mtby's sewage treatment planit. " The firet recount in a municipal election in 30 years involves counicil candidates Joyce- Burns and Harry Inkpen, Iwho are tied. " A and P store is selling oven-ready chickens at 36 cents a Pound. " Bob Attersley of the W/hitby Dunlops hockey team is the leading scorer ini the eastern section of the OHA senior «AN league. 110OYEARS AGO from the Thursday, November 30,1882 édition of the WHITBY CHhIONICLE " Mrs. Croeby'sstale on Dundas Street Westwas destroyed by fire. " Louis Sebert is building a liverystable on Brock Street North. * 'fe Milan Raiway s c ning cloing its worwkshops at Whitby. *J. Farwell'and James Rutledge had disslolvedl their legal partnership. 1 _____________ Il - - - ~t lji j 4 1 - 'i ~ ~